City population, economics, jobs all play heavily - - you've got a lot of units to fill.If I were to market 10+ units, I would advertise only TWO at a time and when one gets rented, add another so there's always and only two visible on the market.

This assumes the market rent for the unit I will be moving into.My goals from entering real estate are 1. add diversification in my investments (right now heavily invested in stocks) and 2. house hack, so that tenants pay part of the mortgageIn my current market, I have two options: a. buy older houses, renovate, bring the rent to market --> this will cashflow, but needs a lot of time investment which I don't haveb. buy turnkey properties: --> renovated and already occupied by tenants but may not be cash flow positive.I found a property that's type B.

I've only been a landlord for 10 years, but it seems to me the same economic factors that predict appreciation will also play heavily in the rental market.

I've gotten heavily involved into volunteer work now that I finally have the free time. 

Assuming you can get break even or a little positive equity on what sounds like a heavily leveraged property, chances are you are not going to cash flow enough to make it worth it.  

heavily disagree:1.)

I recently spoke with an acquaintance who sells hundreds of properties for banks and is heavily involved with the entire gamut of the REO business.

And being a newlywed weighs heavily on reminding me that I also have to think a bit more about "security" of investing now. 

Hedge funds were buying housing heavily in 2010/2011/2012 when prices were extremely depressed.  

@William Brown At a mastermind I was just at, RVM was heavily discussed as it's under scrutiny by the FCC and they are starting to smack down hard on it.